"Sidense OTP macros offer our customers an easy-to-implement and reliable means of protecting data and code on chips used in a wide variety of applications," said Xerxes Wania, President and CEO of Sidense. "Since memory integrity can be compromised by knowledgeable hackers, encrypting sensitive storage data with Sidense OTP is a good way of defending against piracy or malicious modification."

As an ASIC full service provider, Faraday provides one-stop shop service to its customers in IP development, IP acquisition as well as all the details of integrated circuit implementation and production. This model allows Faraday's customers to focus on the successful implementation of their products.

"While Faraday was able to supply most of the IP cores needed to implement a bridge chip for our customer's encrypted USB drive, we turned to Sidense to provide a secure OTP macro," said Joseph Hong, USA general manager at Faraday. "The cooperative efforts of Faraday and Sidense gave our customer what they needed to successfully bring their encrypted USB drives to market."

Sidense OTP memory is available at 180nm, 130nm, 110nm, 90nm, 65nm, and 55nm and is scalable to 40nm and below. The IP is available at all top-tier semiconductor foundries and selected IDMs. Customers are using Sidense OTP for analog trimming, code storage, encryption keys such as HDCP, RFID and Chip ID, medical, automotive, and configurable processors and logic. For more information, please visit
www.sidense.com.

About Faraday Technology Corporation

Faraday Technology Corporation is a leading fables ASIC and silicon IP provider. The company's broad silicon IP portfolio includes Cell Library, Memory Compiler, ARM-compliant CPUs, DDRI/II/III, MPEG4, H.264, USB 2.0/3.0, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial ATA, and PCI Express. With 2008 revenue of US$ 149 million, Faraday is one of the largest fabless ASIC companies in the Asia-Pacific region, and it also has a significant presence in other world-wide markets. Headquartered in Taiwan, Faraday has service and support offices around the world, including the U.S., Japan, Europe, and China. For more information, please visit:
www.faraday-tech.com.